Weekly Media Round up

January 28, 2016 at 2:49 PM

A group of male cricket fans calling themselves the Hooter Police have come under fire for their sexist behaviour at the Basin Reserve on Monday.

The men, who wore white T-shirts with the words "Hooter Police 2016 Reunion", along with fake police helmets, were accused of honking at passing women during the Black Caps v Pakistan one-day international.

Wellington cricket fan Sarah Bickerton, who was sitting near the men on the embankment, and called their costumes "sexist and misogynistic".

"Pick-up artists" from US company Real Social Dynamics (RSD) recently cancelled a planned New Zealand eventafter they were back in Australia to run a series of seminars for men on how to seduce women.

During a 2014 Australian visit, RSD "coach" Julien Blanc was driven from the country after a public outcry that his seminars promote violence against women. The new seminars triggered a similar response.

RSD encourages the overt use of violence, such as choking, as a method for "picking up" women. Other strategies include wearing women down through repeated requests for sex, and "negging", where men subtly insult women to undermine their confidence in an attempt to make them more likely to submit to sex.

A major success at last year's Ahi Kaa Festival, it features a vivid performance from Kali playing a group of disparate women at a Women's Refuge safe house. Kali won the 'Best Actress Award'and the show the'Outstanding New Zealand Play Award' at the Wellington Theatre Awards 2015.

Censor pushes for government to consider more regulation of online porn:

The deputy chief censor wants the Government to put more options on the table for regulating online pornography.

In an article for the censor's website, deputy chief censor Jarred Mullen detailed the harm that increasingly extreme pornography that can cause, and outlined some possible steps towards regulating it.

The gunman suspected of killing four people and injuring several others in Canada's worst school violence in a decade first shot his two brothers at home before opening fire at the remote community high school, a family friend and the town's acting mayor says.